And I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that by the third book in a series, as the writer, I have more space to really put my characters in unexpected positions and take them places that will pleasantly surprise the readers. I genuinely think this might be the most pure fun book that I've ever written. KM: The third book, Rivals, is so much fun. Which of course led me to the place of, 'I wonder what it would be like if we did have a royal family.'ĬM: The latest in the series just came out this summer. It was so interesting that we in America were incredibly fascinated by and obsessed with this wedding of Royals who aren't even our own. The pictures of the royal family were on the cover of every single magazine and newspaper that I passed on newsstands. The streets were lined with people wearing fascinators, and the wedding was being streamed on the jumbotron in Times Square. New York felt that morning, like a city completely on holiday. I was in New York City the day that prince William and Kate Middleton got married. When I was working in book publishing in 2011 in New York, I was an editorial assistant actually working on young adult fiction. Something with backstabbing and political intrigue and drama and forbid love. I grew up reading historical fiction and I always dreamed of writing a historical fiction novel of my own - something that was set in a royal court, whether it was at the Tudor court or at Versailles, or with the Romanoffs.

Katharine McGee: I have been toying with the idea for American Royals for a very long time.

CultureMap: Where did the idea for American Royals come from?

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